How To Maintain A Bonsai Fig Tree
The above ground and underground portions of your bonsai tree will need to be kept in relative proportion.
How to maintain a bonsai fig tree. Though most online bonsai shops sell ready mixed soils doing this yourself will save money and enables you to adjust mixtures per tree species. My benjamina is due for. After untangling the roots prune back some of the longer ones to keep the tree from outgrowing its pot. I show you how to prune the ficus and i work on a multitude.
Of course if you live in an area where temperatures drop below 68 degrees your little tree should be grown indoors. Remove some of the bonsai tree s roots. Your pruning schedule should include trimming of the roots branches and stems. Specific bonsai care guidelines for the ficus bonsai.
Low maintenance ginseng ficus is a low maintenance bonsai that can be grown indoors or outdoors. Prune your ficus bonsai tree regularly to provide shape and training. If you need help identifying your tree try our bonsai tree identification guide. Take your time when pruning a ficus bonsai for the best shaping results.
This quick growth can force you to prune more often than you d like which can expose the plant to infection and rot. The ficus bonsai tree is an indoor bonsai which cannot endure frost. One of the biggest killers of bonsai is watering either under or over watering ensure the soil is moist and do not allow it to dry out. Trim new growth to shape the tree.
Pruned ficus will bleed a white sap. In this clip i show how i trim my ficus benjamina. Benjamina is notorious for die backs at least in my experience and i get feedback from others who have benjaminas. As a general rule avoid removing more than 25 percent of the tree s total mass of roots.
During a thorough. It can be kept outside in summer if temperatures are above 15 degrees c 59f and it needs lots of light full sun is ideal in the house as well as outside if the tree is exposed to the ultraviolet radiation gradually or if it is defoliated before placing the tree outside. This process is ideally completed in the early months of its growing season. Consider the balance of the branches with the roots for a.
Make sure that you occasionally trim back the root system of the tree to prevent it from growing too vigorously. Weeping fig ficus benjamina often develops aerial roots. At this point you should also remove any roots that appear to be rotting. This helps the tree to maintain is small size.